Senior Frontend & Design Engineer, Spice AI
AI app building service for developers
Open for applications
AI app building service for developers
1-20 employees
Open for applications
1-20 employees
Company mission
To make creating intelligent applications as easy as building a modern website.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years professional experience in frontend development with React, Next.js, and TailwindCSS, including deploying to Vercel and integrating with Supabase and Cloudflare
- Expertise in design tools, with mastery of Figma for UX, web, and product design
- Experience designing, implementing, and shipping production frontend systems for developer-focused products, such as tools, platforms, or APIs that target software engineers
- A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions in frontend and UI/UX contexts
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running
- Ideally, fullstack capabilities with knowledge of databases, data pipelines, search systems, and AI integrations
- Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects
- Experience with cloud-native development and modern web stacks
What the job involves
- As a Senior Frontend & Design Engineer, you will design and build the frontend for the Spice.ai Cloud Platform, creating intuitive interfaces that empower developers to query data, search, inference, and deploy intelligent applications and agents with minimal friction.
- Your work will directly shape how thousands of developers interact with complex AI systems, turning abstract data and compute concepts into accessible, high-performance tools that accelerate innovation in decision-making applications.
- This role demands expertise in crafting pixel-perfect UX while integrating robust frontend architectures, ensuring the platform scales to handle real-time AI workloads and delivers measurable value to our users from day one
- An outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai frontend and design efforts, including the Spice.ai Cloud Platform dashboard, spicerack.org, and developer-facing interfaces
- Creating, designing, and building intuitive UX for data and AI tools, focusing on web-based experiences that simplify complex workflows for developers
- Take ownership and drive initiatives for improving the product through frontend innovations, design iterations, and stack optimizations
- Your first month - ramp up and contribute improvements to the Spice.ai frontend codebase and design prototypes
- 30-60 days - contribute to weekly Spice.ai platform releases, including UI updates and design refinements
- 60-90 days - take technical and design ownership of an entire feature area, such as a developer dashboard or AI integration interface
Our take
Integrating AI and machine learning into applications remains tricky for developers. In spite of remarkable developments in both fields, a general skills gap means they’re not broadly deployed in the design of intelligent software. This looks likely to become a real pain point going forward, as demand for truly intelligent systems is on the rise - which is why Spice AI is developing a platform to help remedy this.
The company's platform consists of an open source decision engine, and pooled ‘ML-ready’ data, which in sum allow professional developers to more easily build machine learning and AI into their software. The platform also comes with ready-made ML building blocks available through Spicerack.
Funding for Spice AI comes from impressive players, like senior executives at HitHub and Microsoft Azure, as well as major VC firms like Madrona Venture Group and Founders’ Co-Op. This indicates strong confidence in the company's mission to help the AI software market reach its anticipated multi-billion dollar stature over the years ahead.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2022
$13.5m
SEED
Oct 2021
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $14.5m
Company benefits
- Opportunity to face and overcome challenging problems at the intersection of web3 and AI, and help to shape the future of the industry
- Work side-by-side with technical founders, including our CEO, in a team with over 25 years of experience building infrastructure and developer experiences at Azure, Google, AWS, and GitHub
Company HQ
Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Luke Kim
(CEO)Previously worked as a Tax Accountant at Baines Pendal & Co, alongside consulting with Tidesoft on IT and software engineering. In total has also spent well over a decade in various managerial roles at Microsoft.
Phillip LeBlanc
(CTO)Worked in various senior software engineer roles at Microsoft, before taking up a similar role at GitHub.
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